Things you increasingly don't see anymore

[JackRiddler]

New York City.

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[Seamus OBlimey]

Pedantry.. or this thread would have been locked for its title.

[beeline]

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My penis. Seriously. I look down and it's all gut and feet.

[barracuda]

How about a lack of complete and utter fucking bullshit? You don't see dat much anymore deez days.

[compared2what?]

How about a lack of complete and utter fucking bullshit? You don't see dat much anymore deez days.

I'm pretty sure that's just a permanently scarce commodity. We're certainly not at one of the peak moments of market fluctuation for it though.

[Seamus OBlimey]

space rock

[compared2what?]

Clothing has turned into a major disappointment in the last 20 or so years. One of my favorite shows is "Mad Men", and I am always amazed at how well dressed everyone is. I'm not crazy about looking like June Cleaver (way too much fluffy skirt) but women's dresses were classy and flattering. A lot of thought and care went into making the item look great, particularly the detail of having stripes and lines meet correctly instead of a haphazard mess of chaotic seams.

I remember flip buttons. Ingenious actually. Kick pleats, darts, overlock stitching.

And as I grow older and grayer, what I find frightening is that I won't be able to find anything to wear that doesn't look like it was bought at WalMart. I've noticed that the quality of a lot of famous label companies (Talbots, Ann Taylor...) has been compromised as well. Sigh.

Talbot's is not what it used to be. I didn't actually know that Ann Taylor used to be better, but I'm just one woman. I can't shop everywhere. So I totally take your word for it. I'll add it to the list

WRT the Mad Men thing -- I think that era probably saw the last gasp of....I'm not sure how to put it. It wasn't ever fully realized or universally subscribed to, but between (roughly) the 1920s and the 1960s, there was basically enough broad, common recognition of the concept that giving everybody access to quality (as opposed to adequate) goods and services was a mighty nice feature for a society to have that people sometimes still did it for no other particular reason. It just had some cultural currency across the board when it came to arts, letters, decor, design, education, commerce, entertainment (and so on) as a good in itself.

Some of that still kind of hangs on, I guess. (the stuff at Ikea that's derived from mid-century Danish modern design principles along the same general lines, maybe?) And I suppose it has its downsides, too. But still. It's a nice idea.

Oh! Hey! An example from way before my time (and probably everybody's by now) -- big, huge movie palaces for the masses that had mahogany all over the place and a crystal chandelier for every other seat, practically.



You don't see that kind of cinema architecture anymore.

There's a little bit of a People's Palace (and Wintergarden) tradition in the UK, too. I don't know how peoples-y or palace-y those really were, though. They just look nice to me now.

[Forgetting2]

Naked women. I increasingly don't see them anymore. In the flesh. At all. Frankly. And people dressing up for air flight. Everyone on planes these days looks like they just woke up and decided to go down to the 7-11 for smokes before taking a shower for the day.

For some strange reason I have 4 or 5 strip clubs within walking distance of my house. Unless ypu think body glitter counts as clothing I suppose if you were to pay a visit you could satiate your desire to see some naked women. Bring a roll of cash though.

Or were you talking about some other kind of naked woman?

That's funny, Nordic, if you're talking about the area I think you are. Strippers from the Silver Reign sometimes come into a bar I frequent near there called Liquid Kitty (By it's name people think that the Kitty might be a strip club, but it's not. Just booze.) I've got a stack of get in free cards (that the strippers hand out to people at the bar on occasion). Don't use 'em. Those places are depressing on many levels.

[ninakat]

People who still use WordStar, dBASE III, and the Clipper compiler, like I do (gasp). You know, if it ain't broke...

.pg on
.hm .2"
.fm .15"
.mt .45"
.mb .95"
.RM 7.2"
.lh .125"
.lm
.pm


FUNCTION center
PARAM string
length=LEN(string)
IF length < 80
string=SUBSTR(SPACE(INT((80-length)/2))+string+SPACE(80),1,80)
ELSE
string=SUBSTR(string,1,80)
ENDIF
RETURN (string)

[ninakat]

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My penis. Seriously. I look down and it's all gut and feet.

Somebody get that man one of them newfangled mirrors.... you know, what's it called? Oh yeah, an iPhone.

[Cedars of Overburden]

Cedar Christmas trees, or much of anything made out of cedar actually.

Don't cut one from the overburden though. You might start a landslide.

[harry ashburn]

The Invisible Man

[Hammer of Los]

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You always make me laugh, Harry.

Did you ever see Ray Milland in the man with x ray eyes?

No matter.

...

[Nordic]

Naked women. I increasingly don't see them anymore. In the flesh. At all. Frankly. And people dressing up for air flight. Everyone on planes these days looks like they just woke up and decided to go down to the 7-11 for smokes before taking a shower for the day.

For some strange reason I have 4 or 5 strip clubs within walking distance of my house. Unless ypu think body glitter counts as clothing I suppose if you were to pay a visit you could satiate your desire to see some naked women. Bring a roll of cash though.

Or were you talking about some other kind of naked woman?

That's funny, Nordic, if you're talking about the area I think you are. Strippers from the Silver Reign sometimes come into a bar I frequent near there called Liquid Kitty (By it's name people think that the Kitty might be a strip club, but it's not. Just booze.) I've got a stack of get in free cards (that the strippers hand out to people at the bar on occasion). Don't use 'em. Those places are depressing on many levels.

Yes!! That's my neighborhood! You've zeroed in on me. Funny, isn't it? Just the other day i noticed schoolbusses for that charter school at pico and barrington lined up just outside of Plan B (a strip club). Wanted to get a picture but i was in a hurry. I plan to get that shot soon, tho.

[82_28]

Cedar Christmas trees, or much of anything made out of cedar actually.

Don't cut one from the overburden though. You might start a landslide.

Yeah, good call. It immediately brought to mind the importance of my mother's cedar hope chest.

A hope chest, dowry chest, cedar chest, or glory box is a chest used to collect items such as clothing and household linen, by unmarried young women in anticipation of married life.

The term "hope chest" or "cedar chest" is used in the midwest or south of the United States; in the United Kingdom, the term is "bottom drawer"; while "glory box" is used by women in Australia.[1]

I remember the smell well. I'd dunk my head down into it as a kid just to sniff it. There was always something fascinating with the smell of cedar and the smell isn't necessarily something you recall readily as far as recalling things one "increasingly" doesn't see anymore. Thanks!